3/11/2009 @ 6:00PM

Surveying The Damage

Wealth has vanished all over the world. This map depicts the change in the number of billionaires in each country over the past 12 months — and how the $2 trillion decline in collective net worth among the world’s billionaires was divvied up. Poland and Kazakhstan sustained the largest percentage losses of wealth, while the U.S. had the largest net loss of billionaires. Only three spots on the map showed gains: Nigeria, The United Arab Emirates, and The Philippines.